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“I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.”
Source : "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.
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“There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.”
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“I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.”
Source : "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.
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“Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han!”
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“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.”
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“The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.”
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“Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.”
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“An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.”